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Re:A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly by mudetroit on Saturday January 16, 2016 @12:38AM (#10914398)
The point of both of these has nothing to do with increasing the speed of javascript. It has far more to do with opening the web up to other programming languages in a meaningful manner.
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Re:A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly by dimgl on Saturday January 16, 2016 @01:43AM (#10914539)
I find that to be WebAssembly's biggest selling point. It will be interesting to see how developers leverage other languages in the browser.
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